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The expanding BRICS bloc – Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa – has fueled hopes for a “multipolar world order.” Yet its economies lack an emancipatory vision. Social movements from below instead call for an “anti-polar” internationalism that rejects and challenges both imperialist unipolarity and subimperialist multipolarity.
WHEN: Monday, November 24th, 2025, 11:15 to 13:00
WHERE: online via MS Teams and live at the University of Salzburg, HS387 (Rudolfskai 42)
Patrick Bond is Political economist and political ecologist. He researches topics related to the political economy of Africa, international finance, eco-social development and political ecology, as well as development issues in contemporary South Africa and social mobilisation. Today, Bond is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg.
This talk is part of the online lecture series Emancipatory Perspectives in a Multipolar World Full of Tensions organized by the University of Salzburg:
Tuesday, November 4th, 6-8pm
Russian war in Ukraine: its origins and ramifications
Lecture with Hanna Perekohda
Tuesday, December 16th, 6-8pm
Women in the Vanguard
Lecture with Jess Spear
Tuesday, January 13th, 2025, 6-8pm
Why Are Authoritarianism & Fascism Growing Globally?
Lecture with Frieda Afary
Tuesday, November 4th, 6-8pm
Russian war in Ukraine: its origins and ramifications
Lecture with Hanna Perekohda
Tuesday, November 18th, 6-8pm
Multipolar Myths: Imperialism and the Gulf Arab Monarchies at a time of Climate Collapse
Lecture with Adam Hanieh